chicken

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[edit] Etymology

Old English ċȳcen, diminuitive of cocc "cock, rooster" (i.e. cocc, cucc + -en, -in). More at cock, -en

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Singular
chicken

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural chickens

chicken (countable and uncountable; plural chickens)

  1. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young
  2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  3. (countable, slang) A coward.
  4. (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.
  5. (countable, slang) A young person of either sex.
  6. A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the loser.

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[edit] Adjective

chicken (comparative more chicken, superlative most chicken)

Positive
chicken

Comparative
more chicken

Superlative
most chicken

  1. cowardly

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to chicken

Third person singular
chickens

Simple past
chickened

Past participle
chickened

Present participle
chickening

to chicken (third-person singular simple present chickens, present participle chickening, simple past and past participle chickened)

  1. (intransitive) To avoid as a result of fear.
  2. (intransitive) To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

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